Stolen Sex Pictures Shake Up Hong Kong - and Reveal a Lot About the Web in China
Aggregated Source: China Venture News
February 14, 2008|
How would you like to see a discussion thread on your online bulletin board get 25 million hits? The combination of celebrity gossip and sex scandal has done that in the past week or so for one China web board, according to the NY Times.
The story is simple, and it would seem common place in most Western countries - which is not to say it wouldn't attract it's fair share of traffic here. But you'd think of Paris Hilton's video, or maybe Britney Spears showing off for the cameras...
Hong Kong rap singer and actor Edison Chen had some tech guys work on his laptop. The techies seem to have done a little snooping on his hard drive. Now there are pictures of him out there online having sex with at least six different women - most of them celebrities in China in their own right.
It's not a story about private equity or venture capital, per se. But with the amount of money that gets poured into the tech sector and with the new investment rules for technology, the tightening up of rules on online video sharing, the ongoing censorship efforts in china, etc., the story seemed, well, instructive...
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The story is simple, and it would seem common place in most Western countries - which is not to say it wouldn't attract it's fair share of traffic here. But you'd think of Paris Hilton's video, or maybe Britney Spears showing off for the cameras...
Hong Kong rap singer and actor Edison Chen had some tech guys work on his laptop. The techies seem to have done a little snooping on his hard drive. Now there are pictures of him out there online having sex with at least six different women - most of them celebrities in China in their own right.
It's not a story about private equity or venture capital, per se. But with the amount of money that gets poured into the tech sector and with the new investment rules for technology, the tightening up of rules on online video sharing, the ongoing censorship efforts in china, etc., the story seemed, well, instructive...
See full article.
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